Jehu Lawson

Jehu Lawson (18 May 1740-16 July 1775) was a Colonel of the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Jehu Lawson was born on 18 May 1740 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, Great Britain (present-day Northern Ireland) to an Ulster Scots family. He enlisted in the British Army in 1757 and was sent to the Americas during the French and Indian War, fighting at the battle of Fort Carillon in 1758 and the battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. Lawson decided to settle in Albany, New York after the war's end, and Lawson became the commander of a regiment of Tory militia during the American Revolutionary War. On 16 July 1775, Lawson was killed in the battle of Albany by the Continental Army when the Patriots seized New York.